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Don't Bother to Knock
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
1952 · Directed by Roy Ward Baker · 76 min · Drama · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
… a wicked sensation as the lonely girl in room 809!
Crew
- Screenplay: Daniel Taradash
- Cinematography: Lucien Ballard
- Edited by: George A. Gittens
- Music: Lionel Newman
- Produced by: Julian Blaustein
Cast
- Richard Widmark as Jed Towers
- Marilyn Monroe as Nell Forbes
- Anne Bancroft as Lyn Lesley
- Donna Corcoran as Bunny Jones
- Jeanne Cagney as Rochelle
- Lurene Tuttle as Ruth Jones
- Elisha Cook Jr. as Eddie Forbes
- Jim Backus as Peter Jones
- Verna Felton as Mrs. Ballew
- Willis Bouchey as Joe the Bartender
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: 20th Century Fox
- Themes: hotel, based on novel or book, detective, pilot, babysitter, singer, murder, madness, voyeur
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